Initial Creation
When you initially create an adventure, you must specify your preferences. These include things like the title, land, and colors.

Title

This is what your adventure will be called. When someone looks for you adventure on your lookup or sees it in the category listing, it will appear as the title you've given it here.

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If you're having trouble thinking of a good title for your adventure, click the "Generate" button to get a jump-start with some ideas.

Land

This is the location where your adventure begins.

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If you don't set any colors for your adventure (see below), your colors will default to ones matching the land you have chosen.

Category

Select the category your story falls under. This will help people find your adventure if they like the type you've selected.

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If your adventure falls under more than one category, like a Fantasy Quest for example, select the closest one. :)

Color Scheme

Here you can select the colors of your adventure pages. There are 5 different colors you can set:

- Page Background
- Title
- Font
- Links
- Border

Once you have selected your colors, click on the preview button to make sure everything looks okay... then click submit. :)

Below is a chart of the compatible CSS color names. The Hex values are provided for the heck of it. :) (Thanks, w3c.org. ^_^)

Name

HEX Value

Color Preview

AliceBlue

F0F8FF

AntiqueWhite

FAEBD7

Aqua

00FFFF

Aquamarine

7FFFD4

Azure

F0FFFF

Beige

F5F5DC

Bisque

FFE4C4

Black

000000

BlanchedAlmond

FFEBCD

Blue

0000FF

BlueViolet

8A2BE2

Brown

A52A2A

BurlyWood

DEB887

CadetBlue

5F9EA0

Chartreuse

7FFF00

Chocolate

D2691E

Coral

FF7F50

CornflowerBlue

6495ED

Cornsilk

FFF8DC

Crimson

DC143C

Cyan

00FFFF

DarkBlue

00008B

DarkCyan

008B8B

DarkGoldenRod

B8860B

DarkGray

A9A9A9

DarkGreen

006400

DarkKhaki

BDB76B

DarkMagenta

8B008B

DarkOliveGreen

556B2F

Darkorange

FF8C00

DarkOrchid

9932CC

DarkRed

8B0000

DarkSalmon

E9967A

DarkSeaGreen

8FBC8F

DarkSlateBlue

483D8B

DarkSlateGray

2F4F4F

DarkTurquoise

00CED1

DarkViolet

9400D3

DeepPink

FF1493

DeepSkyBlue

00BFFF

DimGray

696969

DodgerBlue

1E90FF

Feldspar

D19275

FireBrick

B22222

FloralWhite

FFFAF0

ForestGreen

228B22

Fuchsia

FF00FF

Gainsboro

DCDCDC

GhostWhite

F8F8FF

Gold

FFD700

GoldenRod

DAA520

Gray

808080

Green

008000

GreenYellow

ADFF2F

HoneyDew

F0FFF0

HotPink

FF69B4

IndianRed

CD5C5C

Indigo

4B0082

Ivory

FFFFF0

Khaki

F0E68C

Lavender

E6E6FA

LavenderBlush

FFF0F5

LawnGreen

7CFC00

LemonChiffon

FFFACD

LightBlue

ADD8E6

LightCoral

F08080

LightCyan

E0FFFF

LightGoldenRodYellow

FAFAD2

LightGrey

D3D3D3

LightGreen

90EE90

LightPink

FFB6C1

LightSalmon

FFA07A

LightSeaGreen

20B2AA

LightSkyBlue

87CEFA

LightSlateBlue

8470FF

LightSlateGray

778899

LightSteelBlue

B0C4DE

LightYellow

FFFFE0

Lime

00FF00

LimeGreen

32CD32

Linen

FAF0E6

Magenta

FF00FF

Maroon

800000

MediumAquaMarine

66CDAA

MediumBlue

0000CD

MediumOrchid

BA55D3

MediumPurple

9370D8

MediumSeaGreen

3CB371

MediumSlateBlue

7B68EE

MediumSpringGreen

00FA9A

MediumTurquoise

48D1CC

MediumVioletRed

C71585

MidnightBlue

191970

MintCream

F5FFFA

MistyRose

FFE4E1

Moccasin

FFE4B5

NavajoWhite

FFDEAD

Navy

000080

OldLace

FDF5E6

Olive

808000

OliveDrab

6B8E23

Orange

FFA500

OrangeRed

FF4500

Orchid

DA70D6

PaleGoldenRod

EEE8AA

PaleGreen

98FB98

PaleTurquoise

AFEEEE

PaleVioletRed

D87093

PapayaWhip

FFEFD5

PeachPuff

FFDAB9

Peru

CD853F

Pink

FFC0CB

Plum

DDA0DD

PowderBlue

B0E0E6

Purple

800080

Red

FF0000

RosyBrown

BC8F8F

RoyalBlue

4169E1

SaddleBrown

8B4513

Salmon

FA8072

SandyBrown

F4A460

SeaGreen

2E8B57

SeaShell

FFF5EE

Sienna

A0522D

Silver

C0C0C0

SkyBlue

87CEEB

SlateBlue

6A5ACD

SlateGray

708090

Snow

FFFAFA

SpringGreen

00FF7F

SteelBlue

4682B4

Tan

D2B48C

Teal

008080

Thistle

D8BFD8

Tomato

FF6347

Turquoise

40E0D0

Violet

EE82EE

VioletRed

D02090

Wheat

F5DEB3

White

FFFFFF

WhiteSmoke

F5F5F5

Yellow

FFFF00

YellowGreen

9ACD32

Suppress Page Numbers

Some adventures are better played without the page number text. When an adventure is played, the page number text looks like this: (turn to page 4). If you'd like page numbers to dissapear when people play your adventure, check the box.

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If page 5 is always your dead end, you might want to suppress page numbers. That way, no one will know you're sending them to page 5. ^_^

Page Creation
After your adventure has begun, you must create the Pages for your adventure. There are many parts to a Page.

Text

This is the main body of your page that explains what happens here.

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The text for your page can be no more than 1800 characters long.

Image

If you'd like to place an image in this part of your story, enter the image in the box provided.

Your images MUST come from a Neopets server. Neopets servers are www.neopets.com or images.neopets.com. This is to prevent any inappropriate images from being used.

Exits

This is where you set the path your hero will travel along. People playing your adventure will need somewhere to go, right? :) Select the page you'd like them to go to, and type in some text for the link.

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If you'd like to have your hero choose between more than one exit, you can set up to 4 links to choose from.

If you have no other pages to link to, skip the links section, finish creating the current page, and then create one or more other pages. Once those are created, you can go back and edit the first page to add links to it.

End

Every adventure must come to an end eventually. :) There are 2 types of endings: Dead end and Finish Line.

If your hero (or villain) fell down a well, went insane, or was otherwise not successful in completing your adventure, choose Dead End.

If the hero saved the princess, found the treasure, or was otherwise successful in completing your adventure, choose Finish Line.

Only people reaching one of your Finish Lines will count when tallying now many people successfully completed your adventure.

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Perhaps your Hero needs to choose between saving the princess or finding the treasure? They may meet their doom along the way by being smashed by a giant boulder or falling down a bottomless pit (dead ends), but they can end up at one of your two finish lines!

Master List
Your master list shows you all the information regarding your adventure. It also shows you the pages you've created, and lets you edit/delete those pages.

Edit Your Adventure Properties

This is where you can change your adventure's properties. The title, land, category, colors, and suppression can all be changed here.

Clicking this button will edit the cooresponding page. You can change the text, image, links, and any other aspect of the page.

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If you're having trouble deciding where a page will link to, you can always come back and edit it later.

Delete

This will remove the page from your adventure. However, you must always have a Page 1. You may edit it, but you can't delete it.

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Remember that if you delete a page, you'll need to go back and edit any pages that were linking to the deleted one.

Completing Your Adventure
There is one last step to complete before your adventure is ready for others to play it.

Lock/Unlock

Once you are finished with your adventure, you must lock it so that others can play it. To lock an adventure, click on the 'lock your adventure' button on the master list page. Conversely, if your adventure is locked you are not allowed to edit it. You must first unlock your adventure before you can make changes.

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Any games that were in progress using your adventure will be deleted, and so will your ratings! So be sure you're done when locking your adventure, and be sure you really want to change your adventure before you unlock it.

Remember, no one can play your adventure or see it on your lookup until you've locked it.